December 2011
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“Public rhetoric scholarship and pedagogy could benefit from an expanded scope...”
– Rivers + Weber (2011), p. 188
June 2011
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February 2011
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Writing for the web
The following items are mostly for my Information Architecture and Technologies and the Future of Writing Students.
I’ve asked that you contribute to our course blogs (either here or here, depending on which class you belong to) and I understand that you may be unfamiliar with blogging practices.
I will continue to update this post with various links, ideas, advice, and tips from various...
January 2011
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(+) “Tools with embedded biases.”
(+) “Our widespread inability to recognize or even acknowledge the biases of the technologies we use renders us incapable of gaining any real agency through them.”
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Media theorist, Author of Life Inc and Program or Be Programmed
Technologies Have Biases
People like to think of technologies and media as neutral and that...
December 2010
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April 2010
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March 2010
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my cleaver finds its own way.
[ Mindfulness ] :: [ this ] http://bit.ly/cv4nsd + [ this ] http://bit.ly/b0GHJu
(via @bmcnely)
relia, affordances, effectivities.
Hopefully tonight we’ll get to discuss three key constructs Moore invokes in his description of what it means to be technology literate. Consider the following quote, found on p. 4:
An artifact that stores knowledge is known as “relia” (Gibson 1979). In most cases, relia are manifested in technology. Relia has “affordances,” which are physical properties that...
February 2010
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"we do not see…reality…as 'it' is, but as our...
While reflecting on Thursday’s discussion about rhetoric and epistemology, I came across this and thought I’d share:
“The potential integration of text, images, and sounds in the same system, interacting from multiple points, in chosen time (real or delayed) along a global network, in conditions of open and affordable access, does fundamentally change the character of...
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practice accounts
Relevant to our discussion yesterday about researching the people and practices surrounding technological use, and not the technologies, themselves:
Observation forces us to focus on the actions that we are trying to support through design, rather than the things we will ultimately produce. Bill Moggridge, cofounder of IDEO, talks about designing “verbs not nouns” to characterize...
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“Heuristic is not only an instrument for inventing techniques to articulate to...”
– Enos & Lauer (1992), p. 80
January 2010
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“…in order for us to have meaningful, connected experiences that we can...”
– Johnson (1987), p. 29
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bohm goodness
“People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.”